Cereal Time

Aiven's doctor has given us the OK, to start feeding her cereal and introducing her to a vegetable a week. As you can see from the picture she loves the first bite..... but she may just be fooling us and posing for the camera.

Yep, just posing...She doesn't really seem to care for cereal and enjoys spitting it out. Hopefully she will enjoy her first vegetable.... Green Beans!

Aiven is 4 Months old!

Aiven is 4 months old and we had her 4 month check-up today! She is weighing in at 14 lbs. which is the 50%, 24 1/4 inches, 50% and 75% head size. She is at a 6 month old developmental stage. This little girl is such a good baby! I know Gavin was super good at this age but Aiven has him beat. We are very blessed to have such good little kiddos! Aiven is starting to roll over and hold her own bottle. We can start her on Rice Cereal now and veggies. Hopefully she will be like her big brother and just love vegetables and fruit. The other day he even ate a flower. Those darn kid movies, he loves Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and one of the characters eats flowers. Well, Gavin thinks it's Ok and so he tried out a Dandelion from the backyard! He said it was "Yummy." He is hilarious.

Our little Gavin is developing into quite the Tiger Woods, golf that is! He hits a bucket of flight restricted golf balls every morning in the backyard and every evening. Poor little guy is forming blisters on his hands. We need to find him his own golf glove. He just loves golf and that is all he wants to do. When he is in the house, he putts on the carpet and even makes his own putting course with buckets and cups. Check out his video below!

Happy 3rd Birthday Gavin!

The theme this year for Gavin's 3rd Birthday was "Golf." The tables were decorated with little golf flags and putting greens. I made golf ball cookies, golf cupcakes and a big golf ball cake for Gavin. Everyone enjoyed Meatball and Sausage sandwiches, with Papa Fred's famous marinated green chilis, Pasta salad, sausage cheese dip and Arnold Palmers. It was a great party although we expected it to rain, it turned out to be a hot, sunny evening. Gavin had a great time with all his cousins and friends. They played "Hole in One" which is just like pin the tail on donkey, search the sand bunker for golf balls, (Gavin's sand box) and golf ball toss! Gavin was really interested in opening his gifts this year. He got a brand new swing set, a battery operated mini Golf Cart, lots of Toy Story games, clothes, shoes and a variety of golf stuff! My baby boy is growing up so fast, on to another exciting year!

Good-Bye Terrible 2's, Hello Horrible 3's

Well we finally are about to get through the "Terrible 2's", as of July 24th, and enter into the "Horrible 3's." Here is just an incident to prepare us for what we are in for in the near future.

Gavin decided to put Aiven's large bottle of Baby Powder down the air vent and make it snow. I heard "Wheee, Yahoo!" I ran into her room and caught him red handed, or should I say white handed, covered head to toe in Baby Powder. We can look back now and laugh but at the time I was ready to ship him to Madagascar! Although he wouldn't mind, since Madagascar 1 and 2 are his favorite kid movies. Well let's hope that he settles down now that he will be 3.

Our 6th year Anniversary! 7/17/2010

Wowsers, our 6th month Anniversary was July 17, 2010. Amazing how time flies when you are having kids, working, taking care of a household.... oh yeah and having fun! We played golf at the Broadmoor Country Club, where Gary proposed to me on whole #14. It was nice to re-enact the moment again at such an amazing golf course. The course kicked our butts, especially the greens. I must give Gary credit he did win this round! We were neck to neck and tied on the front 9, but he came around and beat me on the back 9. After a great round of golf, we headed to our favorite restaurant, The Melting Pot. Oh how I love the cheese fondue and the dessert! Another great year has gone by and we look forward to many more to come!

4th of July and Ear Piercing

Aiven is 3 months old on the 4th of July. This 4th we played some golf (I beat Gary by the way),had a BBQ and headed to the Pueblo Riverwalk for a 15 minute Firework display! It really wasn't as impressive as the years past. Gavin isn't to thrilled with fireworks, as he acts like they are blowing up his eardrums. He kept his ears plugged with his fingers until the show was over, luckily it wasn't very long!
On July 5th, Aiven got her ears pierced, as you can see from the picture. Gary didn't want to have any part of it, so he hung out in the food court with Gavin while Grandma Geri and I took her. Aiven was so happy and cooing and cawing with the girl who was about to pierce her ears. She did the first ear and Aiven let out a loud scream. I picked her up to console her and she was back to smiling and cooing and cawing. Then the second ear she cried for a little bit longer but it wasn't as bad as when she had her 2 month immunizations. She is tough like her Momma!

Aiven is 2 Months old!

Our baby girl is getting so big. At her 2 month checkup on June 4th, she weighed in at 10 lbs. 11 oz. 22 1/2 inches. She is in the 50th percentile on weight and height and 75th percentile on head size. She is very petite compared to her brute of a brother. He measured in the 95% percentile from birth and is still up there. He will be 3, July 24th and weighs 41 lbs. Big Boy I must say!

Aiven's developmental skills are compared to a 4 month old. She is very happy and coos and caws. She can almost roll over but scoots around alot in her bassinet. She is starting to grab Momma's hair and Daddy's chest hair!

Don't you just love her flower head-band, as if mommy doesn't have enough to do, in her spare time she is making hair accessories!